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Oral History Interviews
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| Narrator | Date | Project | Content | Transcript | Tapes |
| Wilson, David A. | 01/08/1988 | Arnold Shaw | Entertainment | no | 1 |
| Wilson, Flip | 08/04/1977 | Arnold Shaw | Entertainment | no | 1 |
| Wilson, Mary | Early Las Vegas-Roske | no | 2 | ||
| Wilson, Mary | 04/05/1991 | Arnold Shaw | Entertainment. Interviewer: Bill Willard | no | 1 |
| Wilson, Vee | Early Las Vegas-Roske | no | 1 | ||
| Wilson, Vera Vann | 09/24/2006 | BOYER EARLY LAS VEGAS OHP | no | 1 | |
| Wilson, Woodrow | 02/28/1975 or 10/19/1978 | Local Oral History Project-Roske | no | 1 | |
| Winthrop, Helen | 02/10/1988 | Early Las Vegas-Roske | Personal history | no | 5 |
| Wisdom, Alice L. | Early Las Vegas-Roske | no | 1 | ||
| Witherspoon, Jimmy | 07/28/1971 | Arnold Shaw | Entertainment. Interviewer: Arnold Shaw | no | 1 |
| Witt, Rosemary | 11/17/2006 | Nursing | no | 1 | |
| Witt, Rosemary | 11/07/2006 | Oral History Project @ Fifty | Rosemary Witt was hired as a physiatric nursing instructor at UNLV in 1975 or 76. She has been chair of the nursing program for over thirty years and also served as an interim director for a year during a search for a new dean | yes | 0 |
| Wittwer, John | 1975 and 03/01/1976 and 05/17/1972 | Local Oral History Project-Roske | Nevada history and County Agent | no | 3 |
| Wixson, Saul | 03/07/1981 | Local Oral History Project-Roske | Boulder Dam Construction | yes | 1 |
| Wolters, Nina B. | March 3, 2009 | Blue Diamond Oral History Project | This is the history of Blue Diamond Village. Blue Diamond is located 26 miles southwest of Las Vegas. The village, originally known as Cottonwood Springs, changed its name when the Blue Diamond Company took ownership of the Gypsum mine and built corporate housing for the workers in the early '20s. Near the base of the Red Rock canyon, Blue Diamond Village was originally a stop on the Old Spanish Trail for traders from Santa Fe, N.M., to California between 1830 and 1848, according to the history committee's findings. road for the The Blue Diamond School opened in 1929. The company built bunk housing and homes for the workers that it started selling to the public in 1965. | yes | 2 |
| Wolverton, Ester | 03/18/1981 and 03/13/1981 and 02/25/1977 | Local Oral History Project-Roske | Las Vegas history and Personal history | no | 2 |
| Wood, Ina | 03/12/1981 | Local Oral History Project-Roske | POW(prisoner of war), Railroads, Henderson | no | 3 |
| Wood, Norman | 03/01/1980 | Local Oral History Project-Roske | Desert biology and Department of Wildlife | no | 1 |
| Wood, Randy | 06/15/1974 | Arnold Shaw | Entertainment. Interviewer: Arnold Shaw | no | 1 |
| Wood, Randy | 06/14/1974 | Arnold Shaw | Entertainment. Interviewer: Arnold Shaw | no | 1 |
| Wood, Terry | November 14, 2006 | Blue Diamond Oral History Project | This is the history of Blue Diamond Village. Blue Diamond is located 26 miles southwest of Las Vegas. The village, originally known as Cottonwood Springs, changed its name when the Blue Diamond Company took ownership of the Gypsum mine and built corporate housing for the workers in the early '20s. Near the base of the Red Rock canyon, Blue Diamond Village was originally a stop on the Old Spanish Trail for traders from Santa Fe, N.M., to California between 1830 and 1848, according to the history committee's findings. road for the The Blue Diamond School opened in 1929. The company built bunk housing and homes for the workers that it started selling to the public in 1965. | yes | 2 |
| Woodbury, Bruce | 2/25/2009 | Voices of the historic John S. Park Neighborhood | F849.L35 W676 2010 Bruce Woodbury is a native Las Vegan, an attorney, and a former county commissioner. He lived in two houses in the John S. Park Neighborhood and attended John S. Park Elementary and Las Vegas High School | yes | 0 |
| Woodbury, Carl | 02/16/1972 or 02/14/1972 | Local Oral History Project-Roske | no | 1 | |
| Woodbury, Dr. Clare | 01/28/1975 | Local Oral History Project-Roske | Las Vegas and Boulder City | no | 3 |
| Woodrum, John | 06/12/2006 | UNLV | no | 2 | |
| Woodrum, Larry | 02/15/1979 | Local Oral History Project-Roske | Banking | yes | 2 |
| Woods, Opha | 02/23/1979 and 03/11/1981 | Local Oral History Project-Roske | Mesquite | no | 3 |
| Woodward, Forest | 02/23/1979 | Early Las Vegas-Roske | Nevada history | no | 3 |
| Wooley, Frank | 04/01/1976 | Early Las Vegas-Roske | Nevada history | no | 1 |
| Wooley, Gwendolyn | 03/09/1976 | Local Oral History Project-Roske | Nevada history | no | 1 |
| Wormwood, Mattie M. | 03/09/1976 | Local Oral History Project-Roske | no | 1 | |
| Worrall, Harry | 03/01/1980 or 02/23/1976 | Local Oral History Project-Roske | Las Vegas history | no | 1 |
| Wright, Jenkins L. | 1974 or 10/06/1973 | Local Oral History Project-Roske | Nevada history | no | 1 |
| Wright, John | 02/26/1977 or 03/01/1980 | Local Oral History Project-Roske | Nevada and Las Vegas history | no | 1 |
| Wright, Lonnie | 10/23/2009 | Boyer Las Vegas Historic Project | Lonnie Wright played basketball for Coach Jerry Tarkanian at UNLV in the eraly 70s. He started as a dealer in Strip casinos when he was almost the only African American dealer, he has coached basketball in Singapore, owned his own businesses, and taught culinary courses at the community college | yes | 0 |
| Wright, Lucille | 02/23/1979 | Local Oral History Project-Roske | Las Vegas history | no | 1 |
| Wright, Samuel E. | 10/08/2010 | Boyer Early Las Vegas Oral History Project | Samuel Wright was raised in Washington, D.C., and worked in public transportation in Los Angeles and Las Vegas. He worked for the RTC for 26 years. He and his friend architect Bob Fielden started a non-profit organization called PlaceMakers | yes | 0 |
| Wright, Tom | 12/14/2005 | UNLV | no | 1 | |
| Wright, William | 02/26/1979 | Local Oral History Project-Roske | Las Vegas history | yes | 1 |
| Wuehle, Tony | 12/21/2006 | Gaming | no | 1 | |
| Wyman, Richard V, | 03/01/2006 | UNLV @ Fifty Oral History Project | LD3745.W85 2007 Dr. Richard V. Wyman is an engineering geologist who built tunnels at the Nevada Test Site. He taught engineering at UNLV, was chair of Science and Engineering, and helped the engineering college apply for accreditation with the ABET | yes | 0 |
| Wynette, Tammy | Arnold Shaw | Entertainment | no | 1 | |
| Wynn, Steve | 12/08/2006 | Gaming | yes | 3 | |
| Wynn, Steve | Arnold Shaw | Entertainment | no | 1 | |
| Yarchever, Edythe Katz | 12/06/2006 | BOYER EARLY LAS VEGAS OPH | yes | 2 | |
| Yarchever, Gilbert | 04/03/2006 | BOYER EARLY LAS VEGAS OPH | yes | 6 | |
| Yarchever, Gilbert | 04/03/2006 | Boyer Early Las Vegas Oral History Project | Gilbert Yarchever is a Jewish American who was in the Navy during World War II, helped smuggle Jewish refugees into Jerusalem, worked as a civil servant in many countries, and moved to Las Vegas in 1977. He helped found the EXCEL program at University of Nevada, Las Vegas and is an art collector | yes | 0 |
| Yeager, Jane Reid | 07/03/1975 and 07/13/1975 | Local Oral History Project-Roske | Nevada history | yes | 4 |
| Yellen, Lucille | 02/21/1988 | Arnold Shaw | Entertainment | no | 1 |
| Young, Christie | 10/18/1998 | Gay Archives-Dennis McBride | yes | 12 |